Koran Quotes

• I read the Koran and it appealed to me. At the time I was agnostic and it really breathed spiritually back into me. For me it's really a cushion; it's cool, I'm cool with it.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Time
  • Cool
  • Agnostic

• The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heaven
  • Neighbour
  • Koran

• The Koran is an inspiration for intolerance, murder and terror.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • Inspiration
  • Murder
  • Terror

• There is no such thing as one Islam. The Koran is ambiguous and Islam is not a monolithic entity.

  

  Walter Kasper
  • Islam
  • Entity
  • Ambiguous

• I would like to say that that even the teachings of the Koran cannot be exempted from criticism.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Criticism
  • Teachings
  • Koran

• We cannot change the Koran or make no modifications, this cannot be done, or it would no longer be holy.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Change
  • Koran
  • Modifications

• The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love.

  

  Antony Flew
  • Fear
  • Inspire
  • Koran

• Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. In this book we find the saddest and poorest form of theism. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Religion
  • Morality
  • Idea Of Value

• I believe in the holy Koran. It says we declare ourselves to be righteous Muslims and do not take part in wars, or in no way fashion or form take the lives of humans unless it's a holy war declared by God himself.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • God
  • I Believe
  • Koran

• There is only one God for us all, whether we find him through the Koran, the Zend-Avesta, The Tolmud, or the Gita.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Koran
  • Gita

• It is said that we live, move and have our being in God. We find this concept expressed often in the Koran, not in those words of course, but just as beautifully and more tersely... when we realize the meaning of this saying, we are already preparing ourselves for the gift of the power of direct spiritual experience.

  

  Aga Khan III
  • Meaning
  • Concept
  • Koran

• It is Allah's word just as it is in the Koran. We are also not allowed to translate it. It is unimportant whether what it says is well received or not. We are not allowed to question even a single word.

  

  Abdul Sattar Abu Risha
  • Word
  • Allowed
  • Koran

• If the Koran is the soul of Islam, then perhaps the institution of the Muslim family might be described as its body.

  

  Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
  • Family
  • Soul
  • Institution

• I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • House
  • Read
  • Supposed

• If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Seek
  • Koran

• One of those blocks (that prevent the 'Middle East from entering the mainstream of modernity') is the orthodox tenet that the Koran and the scriptures contain all the knowledge required to deal with the problems of contemporary society.

  

  Arnold Beichman
  • Society
  • Problems
  • Koran

• Software will never replace the Koran.

  

  Dan Wieden
  • Software
  • Replace
  • Koran

• The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Wisdom
  • Bible
  • Koran